I've a parameterised job in a build pipeline that fails to run. When I kick the job off from the pipeline view and try to view the console output none is displayed. The job hangs around and can't be stopped I have to restart Jenkins. The following is logged by jenkins

SEVERE: Executor threw an exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
at hudson.model.CauseAction.onAttached(CauseAction.java:135)
at hudson.model.Run.addAction(Run.java:368)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:223)

The job runs ok when I browse to the job outside of the pipeline view and kick it off manually entering the parameters. The pipeline view did work ok a few days ago.

Any ideas on what is causing this.